Friday, February 10, 2017

Big wheel - I wonder how much that weighs?


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  1. Likely in a rusted out factory in a rusted out city in a region where nobody is working now -- one of those progressive places.

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  2. That looks just a little larger than some that I saw coming out of an old gas facility, and they were supposed to have weighed either 14 or 17 tons (I forget which).

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  3. One of these monsters was set up about 3 miles from me, where they bought it from a Milwaukee, WI brewery (Pabst, I think). It was a steam engine used to power their ice plant. It still works, and they fire it up every year during the Sycamore Steam show.

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  4. Fascinating! I love old machinery. Our stuff is a bit more compact today!

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  5. Fascinating! I love old machinery. Our stuff is a bit more compact today!

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  6. Big wheel keep on turnin'. Proud Mary keep on rollin'...

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  7. The equatorial mount of the 200 inch Mount Palomar telescope weighs about a million pounds and is supported by a very thin film of high pressure oil. I was flabbergasted when I first found out in 1971, especially since it was constructed starting in 1938 and is still in use today! Yup, big wheel keep on turnin' w/o any bearings.

    ~Bogdaddy

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  8. Beautiful! I could watch that spin for hours!

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